My mobo caught fire!

[element291]

Heres an odd story. Today at work a co-worker started saying "a buddy of mine destroyed two of his computers last week"

And i go, "firewire?"

He seems very confused, and says yes, so I tell him the story and left him wondering how the heck I knew what happened to his friends computer.

I then remember seeing the name chris, and mentioned that name which also freaked him out. Then I told him about reading it on the forums here.. Hehe he is not a member of HWC.

[gingerbee]

Originally Posted by bovine.baron

Definitely the Mac. You need to shove a wooden stake through that thing's CPU and bury it in its'original packaging.

so true just make sure when your done to have the barial on holy ground or you could be in trouble

[gingerbee]

that's hwc keeping you informed

[belgolas]

Well I chopped the firewire cable in half with a sword. Also I am not using that case again just incase it was faulty. So the case and mobo will have arrows in it when it gets warmer. I will take pics :)

[KaptCrunch]

Originally Posted by belgolas

Well I chopped the firewire cable in half with a sword. Also I am not using that case again just incase it was faulty. So the case and mobo will have arrows in it when it gets warmer. I will take pics :)

warmer isn't warm by the 1/2 cut firewire of hell sorry to hear bad stuff like that

invest in a DVM an test pin orientation of all added exturnial ports cos some

times they arn't pinned out on the header correctly from factory

[element291]

Did trying to claim it under your surge protector warranty work? hehehehe

[death_hawk]

Wait. You didn't connect the 2 computers together via firewire did you?
I assume there was something like an external HDD.

Not that I would know what happens if you connect 2 computers together via firewire...

[MacJunky]

With Any Mac that has built in FireWire* you can Connect them directly and network them** (IP over FireWire) or boot one up while holding the T key to put it into FireWire Target Disk Mode. TDM basically turns the Mac into a large and expensive external FireWire HDD.

You could do the same sort of TDM thing on some old SCSI PowerBooks if you had a desktop Mac and a special SCSI connector between the lappy and desktop.

*PowerMac G3 Blue&White(1999) or higher
PowerBook G3 "FireWire" aka Pismo(2000) or higher
400Mhz Slot loading iMac DV(1999) or higher
or some model of iBook that I am not sure of (but probably the second gen clamshell ones or something) or higher

and all newer models
Also of note that since the Mac shows up as a FireWire device other computers like PCs or oder Macs with a FireWire expansion card should also be able to see and use them.


**IP over FW requires Mac OS 10.3 or higher(last time I checked anyway)

[Jackquelegs]

Was the firewire header pluggined into the USB headers?

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by death_hawk

Wait. You didn't connect the 2 computers together via firewire did you?
I assume there was something like an external HDD.

Not that I would know what happens if you connect 2 computers together via firewire...

I was wondering pretty much the same thing, but it looks like computer --> computer is the standard. Unlike the old(er) ethernet crossover cable, there doesn't appear to be a special firewire cable required to connect that way. Everything Firewire is designed to be daisy chained up to and including different computers.